Redress for the 'comfort women'.(Arts & Culture)(Breaking the History of Silence: the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery)(The Hague: Final Judgement)(Video Recording Review)

From: Catholic New Times | Date: February 23, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Hague: Final Judgement and Breaking the History of Silence: the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slaverydirected and produced by Video Juku, Japan, 2001.

The exciting thing about this new documentary on two videos, The Hague: Final Judgement (33 minutes) and Breaking the History of Silence: the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal (68 minutes), available from KAIROS Ecumenical Justice Initiatives in Toronto, is that it again demonstrates, this time in the Asian context, the power of the people.

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